Your Weekly Web Sausage
June 4, 2011 8:45 am by: Peter Babb

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Guacamole Queen Dies
Last weekend Austin lost one of its original spirits.
Henrikke Lee Moursund, better known as
Big Rikke, passed away in Spicewood Springs where she had lived for the past few years. New Austinites may not know who Big Rikke was but they undoubtedly benefit from her legacy. The city’s motto “Keep Austin Weird” is a direct result of characters like Big Rikke and the other misfits that called the Armadillo World Headquarters home. In the 70s Rikke was a fixture at the
Soap Creek Saloon and became a local celebrity during her stint as the cook at the Armadillo World Headquarters.
Jim Franklin immortalized Rikke in his infamous G
uacamole Queen mural at the AWHQ. Rikke’s legacy lives on in the songs
“Inca Road” by Frank Zappa and Doug Sahm’s “Groover’s Paradise”. Follow this
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